"Sugar Coated Iceberg" by The Lightning Seeds

Too sweet? Nah.

Another recommendation for pop music fans: "Sugar Coated Iceberg" by The Lightning Seeds. This track is from their 1996 album, Dizzy Heights.

Sugar Coated Iceberg

I don't care what songs you sing
Or how you think of all those pointless things
Sweet nothing's what you bring
So fly away on sugar-coated wings

I'm sinking deep, I'm going under
That sugar-coated iceberg tastes so sweet
Until you tumble
Those sugar-coated lies!

All those tricky things you said
On angel wings they're flying 'round my head
You weren't cheap, but I was sold
I should forget you, but I won't be told

I'm sinking deep, I'm going under
That sugar-coated iceberg tastes so sweet
Until you tumble
Those sugar-coated lies!

Sweet and sour, as gold and coal
A sugar iceberg stole my soul
And hid it deep inside my heart
Threw it through me like a poison dart

I'm sinking deep, I'm going under
That sugar-coated iceberg tastes so sweet
Until you tumble
Those sugar-coated lies!

My little sweet sugar-coated iceberg
You melt beneath my feet
You shook me up, but then I tumbled
Those sugar-coated lies!

Sugar-coated iceberg
Sugar-coated iceberg

I don't care if it kills me,
'cause it thrills me

I disagree with the All Music Guide review of Dizzy Heights:

"[…] But guess what—this album sounds just like all of main man Ian Broudie's other creations; it has that same obsession with the perfect '60s melody, polite guitars, and saccharine vocals on an endless quest to rewrite 'Unchained Melody' for the '90s. Too many plays will send you running to the dentist, or back to your Iggy albums at the very least."

Although not my favorite Lightning Seeds album, Dizzy Heights boasts a tracklist that would make most artists green with envy: "Imaginary Friends", "You Bet Your Life", "Fingers and Thumbs", "Touch and Go", the aforementioned "Sugar Coated Iceberg", "You Showed Me", and my favorite, "Ready or Not". I'm having difficulty finding "lowpoints" to leave out!

And the sweetness of the vocals doesn't bother me as much as the reviewer. In fact, the "saccharine" works especially well on songs with an edge, such as the cutting profile drawn in "Imaginary Friends". Anyways Ian Broudie possesses one of the most distinctive and beautiful voices in pop.

The review goes on to say, "Too many plays will send you running to the dentist". Nope. I could listen to it twenty times in a row and not overdose on Broudie's sugary voice.

Play it again—I'm going under.